France, Belgium, Netherlands

Nominated for European Documentary 2024, European Film 2024

Jazz and decolonisation are entwined in this historical rollercoaster that rewrites the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against th...

EL SUEÑO DE LA SULTANA
Spain, Germany, India

Nominated for European Animated Feature Film 2024, European Film 2024

Inés, a Spanish artist, lives in India and stumbles upon SULTANA’S DREAM, a science fiction story written by Rokeya Hossain in 1905. It describes ‘Ladyland’, a utopia in which wome...

LE COMTE DE MONTE-CRISTO
France

The target of a sinister plot, young Edmond Dantes is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After fourteen years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count...

QU'IMPORTE LA DISTANCE

France

Fiction

At 5 in the morning, Yalla is in a hurry. Without her boss's permission, she leaves her night shift as a nursing assistant. She boards a bus, carrying only a heavy bag filled with clothes. The city is still asleep. Yalla sketches out on a piece of paper th...

LA FILLE QUI EXPLOSE

France

Animation

Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

For the past three months, Candice has been exploding every day. Sometimes even 2 or 3 times a day. Her record is seven times. She currently has had 192 explosions.

Written & directed by: Caroline Poggi...

PIGEN MED NÅLEN

Denmark, Poland, Sweden

Winner European Production Design 2024, European Original Score 2024
Nominated for European Screenwriter 2024, European Actress 2024 (2x)

Karoline, a young factory worker, is struggling to survive in post WW1 Copenhagen. When she finds herself unemployed...

NÄHTAMATU VÕITLUS
Estonia, Greece, Latvia, Finland

USSR-China border, 1973: Young soldier Rafael is on guard duty when the border falls under attack from flying Chinese kung fu warriors, leaving him as the sole survivor. Utterly fascinated by the long-haired martial artists who easily dispatched...

Switzerland

This is a cinematographic essay centring around the region of the Bosnian-Croatian border near Velika Kladuša, and explores questions of displacement, violence and also everyday life and coincidence. It is about scars that break open, war memories that are awakened, profound encounte...

ČOVJEK KOJI NIJE MOGAO ŠUTJETI

Croatia, France, Bulgaria, Slovenia

Fiction

Winner European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024
Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

February 27, 1993, Strpci, Bosnia and Herzegovina. A passenger train from Belgrade to Bar is stopped by paramilitary for...

ANUL NOU CARE N-A FOST

Romania, Serbia

Nominated for European Discovery – Prix FIPRESCI 2024

It is the 20th of December, 1989, and Ceaușescu’s regime is on its last legs. The army violently suppresses an uprising in Timișoara, but any news that reaches Bucharest is scant and sanitised. Six peo...

VOLVERÉIS
Spain, France

After 15 years together, Ale and Alex have come up with the crazy idea of throwing a party to celebrate their recent breakup. While their close ones are quite skeptical, they seem to be sure of their decision. Or are they really?

Directed by: Jonás Trueba
Written by: Jon...

O CORNO
Spain, Portugal, Belgium

1971, Francoist Spain. In the Galician countryside María assists women in childbirth. After an attempt to help a young woman in trouble, she suddenly has to hide from the authorities, leave everything behind and flee the country.
On her perilous journey to Portug...

DANAYE ANJIR-E MOABAD

Germany, France

Nominated for European Director 2024, European Screenwriter 2024, European Film 2024

The celebration of Iman’s latest promotion as investigating judge in the Revolutionary Guard Court coincides with widespread public protests after the death of a young wom...

Switzerland, France, Bulgaria, Taiwan, India

In the dead of night, Renuka escapes from a Delhi brothel after stabbing a policeman to death. She takes refuge in a community of sex workers in northern India, where she meets Devika, a young girl condemned to a life of prostitution. Their bond devel...

DER SPATZ IM KAMIN

Switzerland

Karen lives with her husband Markus and their children in her idyllically located childhood home. For Markus’ birthday, Karen’s sister Jule, her husband Jurek and their two children come to visit. Jule is her sister’s polar opposite: easy-going, lively and a freed...

Austria, Germany, France, Somalia

In a windy Somali village, a newly assembled family must navigate between their different aspirations and the complex world surrounding them. Love, trust and resilience will power them through their life paths.

Written & directed by: Mo Harawe
Produced by: Sabi...

LES MOTS QU'ELLES EURENT UN JOUR

France

In 1962, Yann Le Masson filmed Algerian women activists on their release from prison in France. More than 50 years later, with the soundtrack of the footage having been lost, I set out to find these women.
This film investigation tells their silent story ...

Spain

Escaping her overwhelming life in the city, thirty-year-old Natalia finds refuge in the small village of La Escapa, deep in the Spanish countryside. In a rustic derelict house, flanked by a wild and clumsy dog at her side, the young woman aims to rebuild anew. When confronted with the host...

Netherlands, France, Belgium, United Kingdom

Animation

Nominated for European Short Film – Prix Vimeo 2024

Mary, Billybud, and Fumbleton are three miniature actors who star in a kids’ TV series. After their creator dies, they are left alone in the studio. With their slowly decaying costumes an...

LJÓSBROT

Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France

Winner European Make-Up & Hair 2024

When the light breaks on a long summer’s day in Iceland. From one sunset to another, Una, a young art student encounters love, friendship, sorrow and beauty.

Written & directed by: Rúnar Rúnarsson
Produced by: ...

БЕЗВЕТРИЕ

Bulgaria, Italy

Kaloyan returns home to handle the sale of his late father’s apartment. At the beginning the process starts as a routine mundane task, but soon transcends into a journey of self-discovery that tries to track the connection between childhood trauma, memory and the passa...

SIEGER SEIN

Germany

Nominated for European Young Audience Award 2024

Eleven-year-old Mona fled Syria with her Kurdish family and goes to a school in Wedding in Berlin. Mona doesn’t know a word of German, but she can speak football. The dedicated teacher Mr. Chepovsky, or Mr. Che for short, rec...

ELFOGY A LEVEGŐ
Hungary, Romania

Ana, a literature teacher, is being accused of misconduct for suggesting students Agnieszka Holland’s TOTAL ECLIPSE to her 17-year-old students so they can better understand Rimbaud’s work. She has to decide whether to stand up for the values she represents or to...